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Ewwwwwww !

Visiting a friend at a Residential Home this morning, I went to make us a coffee, some of the carers were in the kitchen so I grabbed what I needed and made the drink quickly, no trays and, with the kitchen at the far end of the building, I struggled not to spill it walking back, I finally sat down and took a sip only to realise I’d used salt instead of sugar !

Anybody else mistakenly used the wrong ingredient for a meal or drink ?

When I was nineteen or maybe twenty I woke up with one of the worst hangovers that I've ever had to date after a night of drinking homemade Vietnamese hooch, fumbling around I grabbed a tube of what I thought was toothpaste but it was actually Brylcreem.......being badly hungover the inside of my mouth already tasted like a sack full of sweaty old gym socks and the Brylcreem only made it that much worse.

In boot camp we weren't allowed to use aerosol shaving creme. The stuff we had to use came in a toothpaste-style tube. Once, in the sleep-deprived state familiar to all boot camp survivors, I grabbed the wrong tube . . . ONLY ONCE!

In our old homestead, before we had running water and indoor toilet, my job was to empty the old chamber pot, you newer members ask an older person what that is, each and every morning. Being young and dumb, I often forgot. After about 3 days of missing to do my chore, things started getting a little ripe. Ewwwww....Then it dawned on me I’d better do it now before mom comes up in my room.
Down the stairs I went, prize in hand, and lost my footing. The scene was not a pleasant one and my mom went through the roof. Spent the rest of my day cleaning and apologizing to my mom.
After things calmed down, she told me if it happened again, the pot would go and I would have to go to the outhouse about 50 feet away. It didn’t happen again and soon after, we ran indoor plumbing and a shiny new toilet.

What did Spartacus do to the cannibal who ate his nagging wife? Nothing, he's gladiator.